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The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (VSOE) is a private luxury train service from London to Venice and other European cities. It is currently owned by Belmond . These VSOE services are not to be confused with a regularly scheduled train called the Orient Express , which ran nightly between Paris and Bucharest – in the last years of operation ...
The Orient Express is a usable engine and caboose in the mobile game Tiny Rails (2016). In Euro Truck Simulator 2 (2012) there is an achievement called Orient Express requiring players to complete deliveries between the following cities: Paris-Strasbourg, Strasbourg-Munich, Munich-Vienna, Vienna-Budapest, Budapest-Bucharest, Bucharest-Istanbul.
The Orient Express is preparing for its first launch in decades — a luxury sleeper train in Italy. Dubbed La Dolce Vita, the new Orient Express trains will start operating in Spring 2025.
Set to debut in April, Italy's La Dolce Vita Orient Express would offer guests luxuries like a stylish lounge, Champagne buckets from Giobagnara (which can command more than $500 each), and meals ...
A total of six Orient Express La Dolce Vita trains, each accommodating 62 guests, were constructed in Brindisi, Italy. [8] The interiors are inspired by 1960s Italian design . [ 3 ] The trains will offer overnight journeys around Italy, with itineraries including Rome , Venice and Portofino . [ 2 ]
The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express is among the most famous luxury overnight trains in Europe. The train's six grand suites start at about $30,800 and are often the first to be booked.
La Minerva is just the beginning of what the Orient Express brand’s owners hope will be a new chapter. Hotel group Accor acquired control of the brand name in 2017 after buying a 50% stake from ...
In the 1957 novel From Russia, with Love by Ian Fleming, protagonist James Bond fights his enemy, SMERSH agent Donovan Grant, eventually killing him, while passing through the Simplon Tunnel on the Orient Express. In Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon, Reef Traverse, one of the novel's characters, works on the construction of the Simplon Tunnel. [9]